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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Aims and scope
Genetics Selection Evolution is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to original research on all aspects of genetics and selection in domestic animal species and other species providing results of immediate interest for farm animals' genetics.
Featured: Gene networks for three feed efficiency criteria reveal shared and specific biological processes
Taussat et al. identify the gene networks and the biological processes that are responsible for the genetic determinism that is shared between major feed efficiency criteria: residual feed intake (RFI), residual gain (RG) and feed efficiency ratio (FE).
Articles
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The distribution of runs of homozygosity in the genome of river and swamp buffaloes reveals a history of adaptation, migration and crossbred events
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On the use of whole-genome sequence data for across-breed genomic prediction and fine-scale mapping of QTL
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A theoretical derivation of response to selection with and without controlled mating in honeybees
The Correction to this article has been published in Genetics Selection Evolution 2021 53:18
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Accuracy of breeding values for production traits in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) using recursive models with or without genomics
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A review on SNP and other types of molecular markers and their use in animal genetics
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Ancient DNA studies: new perspectives on old samples
The Erratum to this article has been published in Genetics Selection Evolution 2013 45:4
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Direct and social genetic parameters for growth and fin damage traits in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
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Estimation of genetic variance for macro- and micro-environmental sensitivity using double hierarchical generalized linear models
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Accounting for dominance to improve genomic evaluations of dairy cows for fertility and milk production traits
2019
Retrospective Collection
Celebrating Genetics Selection Evolution’s 50th anniversary
Collection showcasing influential papers published in the journal over the past five decades.
Published: 19 November 2019
2018
Thematic Series
Goat ADAPTmap Project
Collection featuring research from the Goat AdaptMap project, a worldwide analysis of goat biodiversity.
Published: 19 November 2018
2016
Thematic Series
International Symposium on Functional Animal Genomics 2015
Collection featuring research and reviews from the International Symposium on Function Animal Genomics, held in Piacenza, Italy on 27th-29th July 2015.
Published: 29 March 2016
Editors-in-Chief
Didier Boichard, INRAE, France
Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University, US
Helene Hayes, INRAE, France
Julius van der Werf, University of New England, Australia
Featured: Advances and perspectives in selecting resistance traits against the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honey bees
Guichard et al. discuss the reasons that have potentially limited the success of selection programs to support honey bee survival in the presence of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.
Goat ADAPTmap Project
This special issue features papers from the authors of the ADAPTmap consortium, an international initiative to study goat diversity.
GSE welcomes a new Associate Editor
Marc Vandeputte is a research scientist in the “Genetics in Aquaculture” team of the Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology (GABI) Laboratory at INRAE. He is located on the Experimental station of Palavas Les Flots, which is part of the French Institute for Exploration of the Sea (Ifremer) and is one of the largest experimental platforms in Europe dedicated to research on marine and freshwater fish for aquaculture industries and marine biodiversity.
Marc Vandeputte has been working for more than 20 years on selective breeding of fish (mainly sea bass, carp, trout, and sea bream) in close interaction with the industry and other French (Ifremer) and European research institutes and universities. In national and European projects, he plays a key role in developing breeding strategies for improved efficiency (processing yields, feed efficiency). He has a wide range of expertise in genetics and bioinformatics, including animal breeding and genetics, applied and quantitative genetics, analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits, etc.
About the Editors-in-Chief
INRAE
Didier Boichard
Didier Boichard is currently leading the Cattle Genetics and Genomics research group in the laboratory of Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) in Jouy-en-Josas.
His research is focused on dairy cattle genetics and breeding, particularly on the analysis of genetic variability of production and functional traits. He has managed the French national genetic evaluation for dairy cattle, sheep and goats and conducted projects for QTL detection and fine mapping. In 2002, in close collaboration with the French breeding industry, he implemented a large-scale marker-assisted selection programme, which has become a genomic selection programme since 2008.
Iowa State University
Jack Dekkers
Jack Dekkers is professor and leader of the Animal Breeding and Genetics Section in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University (USA).
His areas of research are quantitative genetics and animal breeding with application to swine and poultry genetics, including the use of molecular genetic and genomic information, QTL detection, marker-assisted and genomic selection, design, optimization and economic aspects of breeding strategies, and genetic aspects of residual feed intake in pigs.
INRAE
Helene Hayes
Helene Hayes is a researcher in the laboratory of Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) in Jouy-en-Josas.
Her main focus is animal cytogenetics with a special interest on cattle, goat, sheep and rabbit cytogenetic maps and comparative mapping. Since 2005, she dedicates half her time to the management of the journal Genetics Selection Evolution.
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Julius Van Der Werf
Professor Julius van der Werf holds a PhD (1990) in Animal Breeding from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He moved to the University of New England (Armidale, Australia) in 1997, where he is now Professor in Animal Breeding and Genetics and Program Leader of Genetics in the Cooperative Research Center for Sheep Industry Innovation.
His research interests range from methodological issues on the estimation of genetic parameters (design and data structure, mixed models analysis, genetic evaluation models, random regression models) and genomic analysis (genomic prediction, genome wide association studies, design of experiments, models for genomic prediction, phasing and imputation) to applications for the optimization of animal breeding programs (breeding objectives, optimizing selection, optimizing, measurement, long and short term gains, genetic gain and genetic diversity, total genetic resource management).
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
65 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
43 days to first decision for all manuscripts
213 days from submission to acceptance
15 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.950 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.017 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.445 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.500 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
756,284 downloads
361 Altmetric mentions
